If you've listened to the show long enough, then you know Hunter has consistently advocated for more public defenders to become judges. With their insight into the legal system, communities can stand to gain so much by having a bench with more diverse job experience. Today, Hunter is joined by three L.A. public defenders who are all running for Superior Court Judgeships in Los Angeles County. Ericka Wiley, George Turner, and Kim Repecka know that their careers as public defenders make them uniquely qualified to serve as judges and ensure justice, fairness, and compassion for every person who might stand before them. Guests: Ericka Wiley, Public Defender and Candidate for Superior Court Judge Seat 48, Los Angeles George Turner, Public Defender and Candidate for Superior Court Judge Seat 39, Los Angeles Kim Repecka, Public Defender and Candidate for Superior Court Judge Seat 124, Los Angeles Resources: Ericka Wiley Contact https://wileyforjudge.com/ https://www.facebook.com/people/Ericka-Wiley-For-Judge-2024/61553248058723/ https://www.instagram.com/wiley4judge/ https://www.tiktok.com/@erickawileyforjudge2024 George Turner Contact https://georgeaturner4judge.com/ [email protected] https://www.instagram.com/turner4judge/ Kim Repecka Contact https://kimrepeckaforjudge.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kimrepeckaforjudge/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=0b2d1af0-961f-4311-8352-530c5589f562 Contact Hunter Parnell: [email protected] Instagram @PublicDefenselessPodcast Twitter @PDefenselessPod www.publicdefenseless.com Subscribe to the Patron www.patreon.com/PublicDefenselessPodcast Donate on PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5KW7WMJWEXTAJ Donate on Stripe https://donate.stripe.com/7sI01tb2v3dwaM8cMN

Why is it that even the most well intentioned, well thought out reforms for policing fail? At the heart of policing is a culture that teaches police to see threats around every corner. Today, Hunter sat down with sociology professor, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, to discuss his newest book The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing to try and understand all that contributes to that culture and how it impacts police practices.

Guests:

Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin

Resources:

Get your copy of Michael's Book here:

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-danger-imperative/9780231198479

Killology

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html

Michael's Contacts

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/ms39643

https://www.sierraarevalo.com/

Tony Cheng Policing Machine

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo208342229.html

Samantha Simon Before the Badge

https://www.amazon.com/Before-Badge-Academy-Training-Violence/dp/1479813273

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Today, Hunter is once again joined by Arlington, VA Chief Public Defender Brad Haywood. This time, Brad joins the show to dig into the ways copaganda has negatively impacted criminal legal reforms in Virginia. Specifically, we discuss the ways false media outrage about organized retail theft and the century old war on drug rhetoric have shaped Virginia's discourse on criminal legal policy.

Guests:

Brad Haywood, Chief Public Defender, Arlington and City of Falls Chruch, Virginia

Resources:

Retail Theft Coverage

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/retail-theft-losses-inventory-nrf

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/02/27/shoplifting-retail-theft-lawmakers-response

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/19/target-store-closures-theft-and-crime-higher-nearby.html#:~:text=Retail-,Target%20blamed%20theft%20and%20violence%20for%209%20store%20closures.,locations%20it%20kept%20open%20nearby&text=Target%20blamed%20theft%20and%20violence%20when%20it%20closed%20nine%20stores,kept%20open%20near%20those%20stores

https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/editorial-auroras-shoplifter-jail-crusade-is-a-mirage-of-honesty-credibility-and-facts/

Fentanyl Terorism Law

https://virginiamercury.com/2023/07/21/states-stiffen-penalties-for-fentanyl-despite-public-health-concerns/#:~:text=Va.,to%20ten%20years%20in%20jail

Radley Balko on Jason Miyares

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/virginias-culture-warrior-attorney

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Today, Hunter is once again joined by James McDermott and Paul Chambers from the Far West Texas Regional Public Defender Office. This time, James and Paul are discussing how they utilized the new National Workload study to double their attorney staff. While the use of data was extremely important into winning over county commissioners, James' and Paul's willingness to let the system fail proved to be the catalyst in securing more funding.

Guests:

James McDermott, Chief Public Defender, Far West Texas Regional Public Defender

Paul Chambers, Deputy Chief Public Defender, Far West Texas Regional Public Defender

Resources:

National Workload Study

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2559-1.html

Far West Texas Regional Public Defender

https://far-west-texas-regional-public-defender.business.site/

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Today, Hunter sat down with Jessica Brand, the found of the Wren Collective, to discuss their recent report about the death penalty in Harris County, Texas. For decades, Harris County used the death penalty more than anywhere in the world, but unlike many places, it did not use full time public defenders for these cases. Instead, they used court appointed counsel, and the results of that representation model have been stunningly bad.

Guests:

Jessica Brand, Founder, Wren Collective

Resources:

Contact the Wren Collective

https://www.wrencollective.org/contact-3

Death by Design Part 1

https://www.wrencollective.org/_files/ugd/8fe8f0_fd475c291d07486188088f0d5c2ffa33.pdf

Death By Design Part 2

https://www.wrencollective.org/_files/ugd/8fe8f0_cd056b2be4634f3e9410053388c79bfe.pdf

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In a follow up to our episode on Operation Lone Star, Hunter is joined by UC Davis Law Professor Eric Fish to discuss his recent law review article, "Resisting Mass Immigration Prosecutions." On our previous OLS episode, we discussed the many ways the state of Texas has stacked the deck in its favor, making it extremely difficult for PDs to get anything close to a "win." Yet, OLS is not the first mass immigration prosecution scheme, and today's episode is about understanding the lessons we can learn from Eric, the other PDs, and the criminal defense attorneys in San Diego who got amazing wins against Operation Streamline.

Guests:

Eric Fish, Former Federal Public Defender and Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

Resources:

Law Review Article

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4659514

History of Operation Streamline

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/Operation_Streamline_Policy_Brief.pdf

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Today, Hunter is once again joined by James McDermott and Paul Chambers from the Far West Texas Regional Public Defender Office. This time, James and Paul are discussing how they utilized the new National Workload study to double their attorney staff. While the use of data was extremely important into winning over county commissioners, James’ and Paul’s willingness to let the system fail proved to be the catalyst in securing more funding.

Guests:

James McDermott, Chief Public Defender, Far West Texas Regional Public Defender          

Paul Chambers, Deputy Chief Public Defender, Far West Texas Regional Public Defender

 

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National Workload Study

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2559-1.html

 

Far West Texas Regional Public Defender

https://far-west-texas-regional-public-defender.business.site/

 

 

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Following years of intense advocacy in the state house, a robust coalition of people in Illinois were successfully able to abolish cash bail with the SAFE-T Act. For the tough on crime crowd, this law would turn Illinois into "the Purge." Anarchy would claim the streets and the entire state would become lawless….but did that actually happen? Joining Hunter today are Celeste Korando, the Chief Public Defender of Jackson County Illinois, Sharlyn Grace, the Senior Policy Advisor at the Cook County Public Defender, and Victoria Kerr, former Public Defender and current Private Defense Counsel in Central IL, to talk about the good, the bad, and the truth of the SAFE-T Act.

Guests:

Celeste Korando, Chief Public Defender, Jackson County, Illinois

Sharlyn Grace, Senior Policy Advisor, Cook County Public Defender

Victoria Kerr, Criminal Defense Attorney, Central Illinois

Resources:

SAFE-T Act

https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-information/cash-bail-changes-2023-safe-t-act#:~:text=In%20July%202023%2C%20the%20Illinois,system%20and%20what%20it%20means.

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/the-illinois-supreme-court-cash-bail-ruling-explained

https://eji.org/news/illinois-becomes-first-state-to-abolish-cash-bail/

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/09/14/no-there-is-no-purge-law-in-illinois-here-are-the-facts-about-ending-cash-bail/

https://pretrialfairness.org/

Bad Faith Reactions to the Law

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/the-end-of-cash-bail-is-not-a-purge-law-in-illinois-heres-what-you-need-to-know/2981549/#:~:text=Some%20on%20social%20media%20have%20dubbed%20it%20a%20so%2Dcalled,Pritzker%20have%20said%20is%20false.

https://myfox8.com/news/is-a-purge-law-coming-to-illinois/

Flow Chart

https://ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resources/resources/b3d911ef-bd4e-4263-b86b-0b16fe032ac9/Pretrial%20Fairness%20Act%20Release%20by%20Citation%20Flowchart%20and%20Implementation%20Considerations.pdf

Contact Sharlyn

https://www.cookcountypublicdefender.org/locations-contact/find-public-defender/grace-sharlyn

https://twitter.com/SharlynDGrace

Contact Celeste

https://twitter.com/CelesteKorando

https://www.linkedin.com/in/celeste-korando-ba327a3b

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In 2021, the Washington Supreme handed down one of the most important rulings in the history of the state. For decades, people in Washington were convicted under the state's felony drug possession law without any requirement they had knowledge of the drugs they possessed. The court struck down this strict liability law and opened the door for hundreds of thousands of people to be released, resentenced, or have their case vacated. Today, Hunter spoke with Grace O'Connor, Nat Jacob, and Kimonti Carter, the team at the Washington Office of Public Defense, who work on helping people navigate their options in the wake of Blake v State.

Guests:

Grace O'Connor, Former Blake Managing Defense Attorney, Washington Office of Public Defense

Nat Jacob, Blake Triage Attorney, Washington Office of Public Defense

Kimonti Carter, Blake Community Outreach Specialist, Washington Office of Public Defense

Resources:

Blake v State

https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/968730.pdf

Contact the Blake Team

Call 800-414-6064 (ext 218)

Email [email protected]

How to Vacate Conviction

https://opd.wa.gov/find-legal-help-and-information/vacate-drug-possession-convictions-state-v-blake

Since I Been Down

https://www.sinceibeendown.com/

https://www.kimonticarter.com/teach

Redemption Project of Washington

https://www.redemptionwa.org/

Seattle Clemency Project

https://www.seattleclemencyproject.org/

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Today, Hunter spoke with Taylor Six, a journalist at the Lexington Harold Leader in Kentucky, to discuss her expansive coverage of the criminal legal system in the state. From a system that is almost devoid of all trials to accusations of racial bias in local prosecutors, Taylor is doing amazing work bringing to light the criminal legal stories that help drive better criminal legal policies.

Guests:

Taylor Six, Journalist, Lexington Harold Leader, Kentucky

Resources:

judge tossed a murder charge

prosecutor's response

Follow up on Racial Bias Accusation from Judge

https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article284296008.html

Case of Lasielle White

Here is how her case ended.

Teen linked to Fatal Shooting Gets Probation

https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article275460956.html#storylink=cpy

https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article281033483.html

Plea Deal Story

https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article278980039.html

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